Tile Turnip

Tile Turnip
Tile Turnips create a Power Tile on planting.
Statistics
Sun Cost	250
Recharge	10 seconds
Free Tiles	1
Cost Efficiency	x2
Usage	Single, Instant
Family	Enchant-mint
Usage	Single use, instant
Statistics (China)
Sun Cost	250
Recharge	10 seconds
Class	Special
Quality	Orange
Tags	Support
Plant features	Purple plant
In-game statistics
Unlocked	Beating Far Future - Day 24
Unlocked (China)	Collect 10 Tile Turnip Puzzle Pieces
Costumes
Code name	powerplant
DJ Tile Turnip changed dance floors with his underground hit "Turnip the Beet." What's his latest mix? When he lays it down, you'll feel the power.

Tile Turnip is an instant-use plant obtained in Plants vs. Zombies 2, and also the last plant obtained in Far Future. When planted, he destroys himself to create a purple Power Tile where he was planted. This makes him an environment modifier. He is initially free, but his sun cost rises exponentially the more times he is deployed.

Tile Turnip can be planted on tiles occupied by other plants. He digs into the ground when planted, and a purple Power Tile with a purple circle in the middle appears in the space on which the Tile Turnip was planted. Tile Turnip can't be planted on existing Power Tiles, Gold Tiles, Boost Tiles, mold colonies, or endangered tiles.

Origins

Tile Turnip is based on Brassica rapa var. rapa more known as "turnip".

His name derives from "tile", from a fact he makes Power Tile and "turnip", the plant Tile Turnip's based on.

The "squatting down and drawing circles on the floor" section mentioned in his Chinese almanac description might be a reference to the character "Crazy Brother" (潇洒哥) from Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, a chicken egg who also frequently draws circles on the ground, cursing others to no avail in an attempt to alleviate his depression.

Almanac entry

Note: The stats shown below only apply to Level 1.

Tile Turnip
	SUN COST 250 RECHARGE 10 Special Free Tiles Special Cost Efficiency Usage Single, Instant Enchant-mint Plant Food: No Plant Food effect. Tile Turnips create a Power Tile on planting. DJ Tile Turnip changed dance floors with his underground hit "Turnip the Beet." What's his latest mix? When he lays it down, you'll feel the power.

Chinese version  (China only)

瓷砖萝卜可以建立强化瓷砖，以供玩家种植植物。 植物特征：紫色植物 建立强化瓷砖瓷砖萝卜常常标榜自己是井字游戏冠军。但大家却觉得，他这么说只是为了缓解突然蹲下在地板上画一些圈圈叉叉的尴尬。 In English: Tile Turnip creates Power Tiles the player can plant on. Plant feature: purple plant Tile Turnip creates power tiles and claims the king of Tic Tac Toe. That being said, everyone believes it's an excuse from playing it out on the ground.

Upgrades

Costumed  (China only)

Creates tiles with a heart shape instead of a circle. The tiles themselves act the same, so the costume's effect is purely cosmetic.

Level upgrades

Note: Check the next section for more details of the change of Tile Turnip's sun cost through upgrading and subsequent planting.

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost*	Recharge (Mediocre)	Special (Free Tiles)**	Special (Cost Efficiency)***
1	0	0	250	10 seconds	One	2x
2	10	1,000	250	9.5 seconds	One	1.75x
3	75	5,000	225	9 seconds	One	1.75x
4	200	10,000	225	8.5 seconds	One	1.5x
5	400	20,000	225	8 seconds	Two	1.5x
6	750	30,000	225	7.5 seconds	Two	1.25x
7	1,000	40,000	200	7 seconds	Two	1.25x
8	1,250	50,000	200	6.5 seconds	Two	1.1x
9	1,500	60,000	200	6 seconds	Three	1.1x
10	2,000	75,000	200	5 seconds	Three	1x

* This column shows the cost shown in the Almanac, which is for the first non-free Tile Turnip after the free ones at the start.
** Free Tiles: Allows the player to plant more Tile Turnips for free (0 sun) at the start.
*** Cost Efficiency: The amount increased of its sun cost for every subsequent planting of Tile Turnips (after planting the first non-free Tile Turnip). This amount will be decreased after levelling up.

Sun cost

Unlike every other plant, Tile Turnip, Imitater and Ultomato are the only plants to always have a variable sun cost. He starts out at 0 sun, then increases to 250 for the second, and doubles for every Tile Turnip planted afterwards. Up to seven Tile Turnips can be legally planted in a single level before the sun cost exceeds 9900, preventing more Tile Turnips from being planted without hacking. However, in the Chinese version, the max sun limit has just increased to 33,464, allowing the player to place nine Tile Turnips, indeed achieving the 32,000 sun cost. In the international version, Tile Turnip's upgrades further improve his cost efficiency and number of free tiles, allowing more to be placed with reduced expenses.

Note: Blue prices are free tiles. Green prices are the default according to the Almanac. Yellow prices are increased prices that can still be used. Gray prices are increased prices that are over the maximum allowed sun amount and therefore are not affordable. Red prices are increased prices only affordable in the Chinese version.

Tiles on lawn	Level 1, China (efficiency 2x)	Level 2 (efficiency 1.75x)	Level 3 (efficiency 1.75x)	Level 4 (efficiency 1.5x)	Level 5 (efficiency 1.5x)	Level 6 (efficiency 1.25x)	Level 7 (efficiency 1.25x)	Level 8 (efficiency 1.1x)	Level 9 (efficiency 1.1x)	Level 10 (efficiency 1x)
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	250	250	225	225	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	500	435	390	335	225	225	200	200	0	0
3	1000	765	685	505	335	280	250	220	200	200
4	2000	1335	1205	755	505	350	310	240	220	200
5	4000	2340	2110	1135	755	435	390	265	240	200
6	8000	4100	3690	1705	1135	545	485	290	265	200
7	16000	7180	6460	2560	1705	685	610	320	290	200
8	32000	12565	11305	3840	2560	855	760	350	320	200
9	64000	N/A	N/A	5765	3840	1070	950	385	350	200
10	N/A			8645	5765	1340	1190	425	385	200
11				12970	8645	1675	1490	470	425	200
12				N/A	12970	2095	1860	515	470	200
13					N/A	2615	2325	570	515	200
14						3270	2910	625	570	200
15						4090	3635	690	625	200
16						5115	4545	755	690	200
17						6390	5680	835	755	200
18						7990	7105	915	835	200
19						9990	8880	1010	915	200
20						12490	11100	1110	1010	200
21						N/A	N/A	1220	1110	200
22								1345	1220	200
23								1480	1345	200
24								1625	1480	200
25								1790	1625	200
26								1965	1790	200
27								2165	1965	200
28								2380	2165	200
29								2620	2380	200
30								2880	2620	200
31								3170	2880	200
32								3485	3170	200
33								3835	3485	200
34								4220	3835	200
35								4645	4220	200
36								5105	4645	200
37								5620	5105	200
38								6180	5620	200
39								6800	6180	200
40								7480	6800	200
41								8225	7480	200
42								9050	8225	200
43								9955	9050	200
44								10950	9955	200
45								N/A	10950	200

Strategies

Tile Turnip is an excellent plant for increasing the power of Plant Food upgrades. He works best with plants whose Plant Food affects multiple lanes, such as lobbed-shot plants.

An excellent recipient for Tile Turnips is the Winter Melon, as his high-power Plant Food upgrade affects all zombies on screen, and with Tile Turnips, that effect can be multiplied several times just for the price of one Plant Food. Three Winter Melons with Tile Turnips under each of them (total sun cost: 2250) can destroy almost any zombie onscreen. Another good recipient for Tile Turnip chains are multi-directional plants such as Threepeaters and Snapdragons. You can also use Tile Turnips with Twin Sunflowers or Sun-shrooms as a way to get a large amount of sun quickly. However. this can be counter-productive as tile turnip can get very expensive quickly.

Tile Turnip can be used in conjunction with Primal Potato Mine to fill the board up with them, which allows several large waves of zombies to be destroyed at the cost of only one Plant Food.

Tile Turnip can work exceptionally well for "comboing" Plant Food effects that affect the whole board, such as Iceberg Lettuce, Shadow-shroom, Shrinking Violet and Imp Pear. For one Plant Food, every zombie on screen will be frozen, poisoned, and shrunken, and some even turned into Imps, which can wipe out even the largest of waves with ease.

In the higher levels of Endless Zones, Power Lily is often needed to replenish Plant Food that the player uses on Tile Turnip-empowered plants. In easy Endless Zone levels, refrain from using Tile Turnip in order to conserve Plant Food for harder levels. Likewise, quick Endless Zone levels (two flags or less) may not be the best place to use Tile Turnips, as the player will not be able to accumulate enough sun to plant a significant amount of them.

Tile Turnip is quite useful in Arena mode, as generally they give you much more plant food than in an actual level, as well as extra starting sun. The aforementioned combination with Primal Potato Mine is perhaps at its best here, as Primal Potato Mine excels at destroying large hordes of zombies through brute force.

Take caution when using Tile Turnip in Big Wave Beach, because when the tide comes in, it will cover your Power Tiles and render them useless. However, once the water stops covering the Power Tiles, they will then function properly. Place the Tile Turnips on the tideless columns to prevent this.

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Tile Turnip
Simplified Chinese	瓷砖萝卜	lit. "Ceramic Tile Radish"
French	Navet à case
German	Feldrübe
Italian	Rapa-zolla
Brazilian Portuguese	Quadranabo	portmanteau of quadrado and nabo
Spanish	Rábano casillero

Trivia

• He (when planted multiple times) is the most expensive plant in the whole Plants vs. Zombies series. He can exceed the maximum amount of sun which is 9900. The most he can cost is 16000 (64000 in the Chinese version).
  • It's actually possible to make his cost double even further via making a level in the Creative Courtyard with many pre-placed Purple Power Tiles, so much so his cost eventually reaches an integer overflow and wraps back around to a negative value.
• Him and his Imitater form are the only plants that can only be planted a limited amount of times.
• He bears a small resemblance to Beet from Plants vs. Zombies Adventures.
• If he is used on a minecart, the minecart itself will become a Power Tile, but it can still be moved just the same.
  • There is a rare glitch where Power Tiles on minecarts won't receive Plant Food charges from other tiles. This occurs when the minecart is moved during the charge.
• "Turnip the Beet" in its Almanac entry is a pun on the phrase "Turn Up The Beat."
• He and Gold Leaf are the only two plants that can't be planted on Power Tiles or endangered tiles.
• If the player uses him with Imitater, be it the original or the imitated one, both the original and imitated Tile Turnip sun cost will increase.
• There is another rare glitch where his seed packet will occasionally be lit up as if it can be planted when the player doesn't have enough sun. It can then be selected and dragged to a spot on the lawn where it will prompt the player with the "You do not have enough sun to plant this" message.
• He can be planted above planks in Pirate Seas despite the fact that he burrows himself.
• In the Far Future trailer for the international version, a plantable Tile Turnip costs 64000 sun, even though it is impossible to reach or get past 16000 sun without hacking in that version.
• If Tile Turnip is planted on any plant, the circle on the Power Tile won't glow.
• His normal costume, Bjornhorn, is based on Bjorn from Peggle, a game also made by PopCap Games.
• If the player plants him on a Puff-shroom and put a Plant Food on another one, the Power Tile will have a green border.
• When he is spinning, his costume simply disappears.
• He is the first plant that drills into the ground, the second being Intensive Carrot and the third being Olive Pit.
• If the player went fast enough at collecting sun with a Level 6, 8 or 9 Tile Turnip, they can plant one more Tile Turnip above the sun limit.
• If the player plants Tile Turnip on Spikeweed, Spikerock or other underground plants while the zombies are stepping on them, it will make the zombies able to eat these plants.
• Despite being in Enchant-mint's family, Tile Turnip is unaffected in anyway by Enchant-mint.
• As of a data push sometime in 2022, Tile Turnip's Russian Hat costume is set to never appear in the store. The reason for this is unknown, but the time at which it happened suggests it was done due to the Russo-Ukrainian War.

See also

• Power Tile
• Plant Food
• Gold Leaf
• Contain-mint

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